''There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.''

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), Russian-born U.S. novelist, poet. Lolita: A Screenplay, foreword (1974).
Of his constitutional unsuitability as a dramatist, regarding his being asked initially to do the screenplay of Lolita.

''I'm really sorry that I cheated so much, but I guess that's just the way things are.''

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), Russian. Lolita Haze (James Mason), Lolita, saying goodbye to Humbert Humbert as she is now married and pregnant (1962).